Wary may be best in long run but
Classic 214X -top10 is reliable for solid use on these Compaq laptops from last century, even when only 128 RAM.

live-CD and frugal installs, with swap file
run with no problems on these 10 year old laptops
with various added RAM - see above (recommend get min 256 RAM)
and do keep it simple and basic if needing a workhorse
with no added bling, or swapping of window-managers etc
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I have just purchased an old Armadea E500 like above and find Pup 3 best on this. With Puppy 4.12 with regular kernel and retro 2.6.21.7 I had to manually set up the soundcard ES1978 and upon reboot settings were not saved. Pup 3 had it working straight away using the same kernel as 4.12 retro.

I had to install acpitool to get a sleep mode, sensor program to get temp info, and writing scripts* to get along with the OS. The bright side of that is, that I'm learning how to do such stuff. But sometimes I would prefer to have it easier.

*Like
- Script for automatic poweroff if battery is empty cause it does it not on it's own.
- same for to high temperatures
- updating flash automatically (AAHRG, security!)

EDIT: Oh, I have fancontrol issues. When my notebook (no laptop ) comes back from sleep the fan runs all the time. On one side I like that cause it cools my system and the fan isn't stucking, normally it would get to warm cause my Puppy has no program to start it when it gets to warm. On the other side, having it running all the time is not always fun. Yeah, I know there's a program called fancontrol in repository.

Works out of the box with slaco 5.7-nonpae. precise 5.7.1 does not work so greate (think it was problems with the video card for some reason). WiFi works fine. I have not tested the modem. I'm currently running from the HD but running of the USB port also works as expected.

Booted into the Toshiba Satellite L755d via a USB-Key install of Carolina Vanguard Release 2. The system was fast and responsive. The only problem being that after setting up sound it was quiet even with volume set to maximum. For more details, see my post here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=824655#824655

Note the date above. Carolina-Vanguard is the first Pup I've tried on this machine in about 6 months. Previous Pups tested usually were unable to recognize its sound cards. But IIRC, one didn't recognize its keyboard.

It is probable that Carolina 1.3 will be functional. TahrPup tested -- it isn't.

Edit: 9/25/15
Warning: Install Grub4Dos to the hard-drive at your own risk. The above reported success was with Puppy Frugally on a hard-drive partition but booted via Grub4Dos on a USB-Key. After installing Grub4Dos to the hard-drive Windows 7 would no longer boot. I've never had a problem with Grub4Dos before. Used it to dual boot XP and Puppies on a half-dozen computers, and Puppies and Windows7 on an Acer Aspire D270 and a Dell Latitude E6400.

I am lead to suspect that this is just another of Toshiba's peculiarities by my receipt of a reported mbr problem on a Toshiba L755. The L755 is almost identical to the L775. I don't have details regarding the loss, other than that Vanguard-Carolina was being employed.

mikesLrLast edited by mikeslr on Thu 24 Sep 2015, 21:29; edited 3 times in total

An old Compaq Armada (7400), 333 MHz PII. 256 MB RAM runs lupumini 5.2.8.7. When I flush the cache, it seems to show a memory load of under 60MB. That makes it very comparable to the old 4.11/4.12 Retro (from my recollection).

(the "also works" list includes 4.11/4.12 Retro and 5.25 Retro)

Even got the sound to work (though the internal speakers are pretty poor -- need to try it through some externals, to see if the driver is correct). It did require that I run ALZA to locate the correct driver (it didn't automagically load).

I didn't try pushing it, and didn't connect it to the internet (the wireless card is out, and have also mislaid my USB card -- the single built in is a USB 1.1)

- Tekst/Excel editing works fine also possible to wireless print now
- Internet works but today's websites are waaay to "big" too load also navigating sites not optimized for 800x600 is annoying. Stick to simple text/html sites for better experience.
- Startup time is about 1m20sec which is decent!

Not sure what to use it for now its decent for tekst editing and printing. (it has decent clicky keyboard instead of those small chiclet keyboards these days)

HI Just to let you know Puppy 5.2.5. running fine on the Toshiba Equium A300D, so far so good! Just to add I generally compile most of my pets and packages from source so that way I know it should generally work for whichever dedicated system I have installed puppy on. have never yet learnt how to compile an sfs package yet so I cant comment on that wonderful area of puppy linux brilliance! peace ! _________________Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.....
well thats at least how some of us deal with ba$h !

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